The axe is falling on the smallest shoulders in our society  

By David Miliband Now it's official – the Tories are targeting children and the most vulnerable in our society. That is where the axe is falling. Not on those with the broadest shoulders, but the smallest. Today's report by the End Child Poverty campaign, with analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, shows that families with children have been the victims of George Osborne's budget, and that the poorest children will be hit hardest. In a little over a hundred days, David Cameron and George Osborne have taken backward steps that threaten Labour’s work in government in lifting 500,000 children out of poverty. They have all but given up on their ‘aspiration' of bringing the percentage of all children living on less than 60% of the median income to below 10 per cent by 2020. As Local Government Minister Bob Neill confessed in the House of Commons in June:...